March 2009 Entries
One of the pioneering things that the founders of Google realized was that people linked to good content – and part of their search ranking algorithm counted up incoming links from authoritative sources. It just so happened that as their search engine started taking off – blogging took hold and people loved generating more content, and linking to more pages and topics they liked. Since I’ve been using Twitter I’ve certainly not been writing as much on my blog. Rather than taking the time to link to an interesting article and perhaps add my own comments around it I...
It’s been a hectic few weeks with work, travel and fun! First off was the MVP summit in Seattle. The conference was on for 3 days but I booked a 9 day stay in Seattle to take some days to chill and play some golf. If anybody is visiting Seattle make sure you visit The Golf Club at Newcastle and play a round. Awesome views of Seattle off the first tee and a great way to get over jet lag. Usually when suffering from jet lag I don’t play very well but I did OK this time which got...
We’ve just added the Lightning Storm Forums to a SharePoint site that is publicly available – go to it now to try out posting a topic or reply: http://connect.lightningtools.com This is some new functionality just released that people have requested being added to the forums! Anonymous viewing was possible before, but now we’ve added the ability to allow anonymous posting also – great for a public facing web site.
As previously mentioned we have start using UserVoice for tracking new ideas for products and features for Lightning Tools. One thing that popped up was an idea for the Lightning Jump Web Part. This web part allows you to maintain a list of keywords that relate to specific urls that people want to visit often such as HR or expense forms. Think MOSS search Best Bets but with ajax auto complete functionality (works with WSS 3.0 also). One drawback from the initial version was that the keywords were defined per site collection – no good if you wanted to...
We’ve pushed out a new release of BDC Meta Man today. Cool new features include being able to connect to ODBC data sources using a connection string and localizing your entity names. Check out some more info on the Lightning Tools Blog.
Why every time I travel away do I end up buying a load of books! Somehow I need to carry these all back to the UK later today! Now going to look at the new Sony eReader thingy as this would solve my problem in future.